Peckris 2

Not sure why you're unhappy with that first one? It's rather unlikely you'd upgrade that in a hurry.

No, I agree with you. The early 70s (the first 3 or 4 proof sets) you can make a case for - no pun intended. However, it would have been preferable if subsequent sets had been much more sporadic. Individual changing designs or new denominations - the 20p, £1, £2, 50p, etc - would have been introduced as single issues in various forms such as regular metal, silver, and piedfort for new denominations. The whole "several proofs each year" thing has just devalued the proof experience IMO.

I'm late to this thread - yes, it's Julia Domna; you can make out the MNA AUG to the right of her bust, and just discern the DO to the left. It's her portrait too. I found my first denarius on the spoil tip of an archaeological dig in 1974 - a Julia Domna in VF. Sadly I was a penurious student when I got back to Brum and sold it to a dealer for around £7, a small fortune back then.

"One is not amused. How about ewe?"

Any coins?

Anything in the museum would be valuable and / or rare. Everything else got melted down?

Randy California, I think? They lost that case, hope they didn't also lose a heap of legal costs.

Three tracks from possibly the most underrated band of all time: Rock, jazz, ballads - they had it all. Plus the litiginously failed original riff to Stairway To Heaven?

You need a space between grams... and https for the link to work.

Sensayuma? Not us...

Very fair. Tbh, if it was mine I wouldn't rush to sell it, but we're all different (thank goodness).

Certainly return proof coins that have been poorly handled, as these clearly have. It's nothing new however - you don't see fingerprints on 70s proofs, but sometimes you see very bad staining, a reaction with the coloured inlays. 1973 proof sets especially it seems, it's rare to find one where all the coins are perfect.

I would largely agree with copper. However, it wasn't out of the question, and I expect on rare occasions someone would pull a (grim) pre-1920 coin from their change. It never happened to me but not impossible. Do bear in mind that the only factor in such coins that went up in the 70s was their bullion value.

Why do you say C over G ? I'm more inclined to say a repunched C as it appears to be an underlying C.

What do you mean by "variety"? There are so many types: different mints e.g. Heatons, Kings Norton major design changes, e.g. 1927 reverses less dramatic changes like beaded/toothed borders, height of sea, position of initials etc die identifiers mules die flaws and fills Just scratching the surface there (no pun intended).

Well, of course it's "upper" - you wouldn't find a seraph in hell!

I would (after eliminating the tautology of "almost practically"!) based purely on the photograph. Seeing the coin in hand I might vary that, but not by much.

Yes - I too found more pre-47 florins than shillings, though that may just be coincidence; the mintages of Geo VI silver florins and shillings are broadly similar. On the other hand, before 1982's 20p introduction you'd see many more florins as you'd get up to 4 as change from 50p, where you'd only get one shilling. Sixpences survived until 1980 when they were demonetised.

Just on the picture alone, I'd say that was as near Unc as you're going to find on those coins. (Can't see evidence of dipping.)

Well, I've been watching American TV since Alias Smith & Jones and Kojak in the early 70s, and I can assure you that in all that time I never ever knew that 555 was a fictional phone exchange! (Happy Days, Cagney & Lacey, Murder She Wrote, The Rockford Files, Friends, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier... and all the Star Treks - oh wait... )

Only on first glance and not consulting references, it seems to be halfway between the two. On the other hand, it may just be a final 7 punched too close to the first one?

Nevertheless a picture of your putative C over G would be essential for us to comment.

It was extremely common to find florins and shillings in change though it gradually lessened up to 1990/2 when the sizes changed and they were all withdrawn. It was also possible to find pre-47 silver, usually George VI. The humble sixpence also survived until 1980, though there never was a 2 1/2p coin. Note that the mintage of 10 pences and 5 pences (from 1968) never came anywhere near the mintage of 1971 bronze, for precisely this reason, that florins and shillings were only gradually withdrawn. copper123 - you didn't see ANY copper after August 1971 as it was no longer legal tender. In fact halfpennies were demonetised in 1969, so only pennies survived to 1971.

I'm very glad this site is http not https as my (older) browser sometimes refuses to connect to a site that isn't https. Which is total pants as a much older browser on an old machine rarely refuses to connect. Computers eh? Gotta love 'em.